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فُول
fava beans (broad beans) /fuːl/
nounB2#3397 most common
Also: ful medames (the cooked fava bean dish), broad bean
Example sentences
أنا أحب الفول.
I like fava beans.
أمي تطبخ الفول كل صباح.
My mother cooks fava beans every morning.
اشتريت كيس فول من السوق أمس.
I bought a bag of fava beans from the market yesterday.
الفول المدمس من أشهر الأطباق في المطبخ المصري.
Ful medames is one of the most famous dishes in Egyptian cuisine.
تُنقع حبوب الفول في الماء طوال الليل قبل طهيها ببطء.
Fava beans are soaked in water overnight before being cooked slowly.
يعود تاريخ زراعة الفول في مصر إلى آلاف السنين، وقد شكّل مصدرًا أساسيًا للبروتين النباتي لدى الفلاحين.
The cultivation of fava beans in Egypt goes back thousands of years, and it has been a key source of plant protein for farmers.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فُولٌ | — |
| Genitive | فُولٍ | — |
| Accusative | فُولاً | — |
| Vocative | يا فُولُ | — |
Word family
فولةone fava bean
فوّالseller of fava beans, or a shop serving ful
فول مدمسstewed fava beans, the classic Egyptian dish
فول سودانيpeanut
فول أخضرfresh green fava beans (in the pod)
Etymology
Fūl is an old Semitic word for the bean, not an Indo-European one. Classical Arabic dictionaries already list it with this sense, and related forms appear in other Semitic languages for the same plant. The word likely reached Arabic from a shared ancient Near Eastern agricultural vocabulary rather than through borrowing from a single neighbor.
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